Not since da Vinci’s Last Supperhas an artist so perfectly portrayed a young man surrounded by his most ardent followers, with signs of betrayal in the air.

On Sunday, redditor wh0k3b3 shared a photo of everyone’s favorite (or least favorite) Canadian heartsob with his vocal cords in the grip of Post Malone, but what captured the attention of Reddit’s Pics community wasn’t simply the image itself, but how wh0k3b3 described it.

(As user Pricey1983 points out, the painting also looks like it would pair well with the lyrical caption, “Is it too late now to say sorry?”)

After thousands of users upvoted the post to the top of the Pics community, some artistically inclined redditors decided to make wh0k3b3’s comparison a reality, transforming the photo of Bieber into a Renaissance-style painting (with a little help from Photoshop).

As other users arrived at the same idea and riffed off of each other’s work, the comments section led to a visual revival spanning several periods of art history.

The first masterpiece in the new exhibit comes from Renaissance redditor Cocubed, whose dramatic lighting and framing elevate the photo’s emotional undercurrents:

Reddit user Cocubed

Best of all, the Cocubist painting has given rise to a few satirical art critics:

But with so many talented artists on display in the comments, redditor helium_farts reminds us that the true meaning of this renaissance is in the eye of the Belieber. Perhaps one day, thousands of screaming fans will flock not to Bieber’s concerts, but to the art museum, to view these very images.